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Israel tightens grip on West Bank with planned restrictions
Jerusalem: If, during your travels in the Holy Land, you decide to take the next step with your Palestinian sweetheart, you should notify the Israeli military within 30 days. That’s what it…
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Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr holiday with joy, worry
Cairo: For the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the smell of freshly baked orange biscuits and powdered sugar-dusted cookies typically fills the air in Mona Abubakr’s home. But due to higher prices, the…
- Middle East
Israel arrests Palestinian attackers who killed guard
Jerusalem: The Israeli military on Saturday said it has arrested a pair of Palestinian assailants who allegedly shot and killed a security guard at the entrance of a Jewish settlement in the…
- Middle East
Israeli police clash with rock-throwers at major holy site
Jerusalem: Palestinians hurled stones and Israeli police fired rubber-coated bullets at a major Jerusalem holy site early Friday that has seen waves of unrest in recent weeks. The police say Palestinians inside…
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Israel PM’s family receives death threat and bullet in mail
Jerusalem: family of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and bullet in the mail for the second time this week, the police said Thursday. According to an Israeli official…
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Israel halts for Holocaust day, honors six million Jews killed
Tel Aviv: Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honouring the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. People halted where they…
- Middle East
Israel strikes southern Lebanon in response to rocket fire
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said it struck Lebanon with artillery fire early Monday after a rocket was fired into Israel. The army said the rocket landed in an open area in northern…
- World
Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33: Taliban
Kabul: A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabihullah Mujahid, the…
- Middle East
Fresh clashes between Israeli police, Palestinians at Al Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalem: Israeli police and Palestinian youths clashed again at a major Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday despite a temporary halt to Jewish visits to the site, which…
- Middle East
Gaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume
Tel Aviv: Israel’s air force and Palestinian militants traded fire across the Gaza frontier early Thursday as clashes erupted again at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, worsening an escalation that has been…
- Middle East
Gaza militants fire rocket into Israel as tensions soar
Jerusalem: Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel for the first time in months on Monday, in another escalation after clashes at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, a series of…
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Turkey launches new ground, air offensive in northern Iraq
Ankara: Turkey has launched a new ground and air cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defense minister announced early Monday. Turkish jets and artillery struck targets belonging to the…
- Middle East
Iran’s President warns Israel with armed forces for ‘tiniest move’ against Iran
Tehran: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Monday warned that Israel will be targeted by his country’s armed forces if it makes the tiniest move against Iran. He spoke as talks stalled in Vienna…
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Iran confirms relocating centrifuge facility to underground site
Tehran: Iran has confirmed it relocated a centrifuge facility to its underground Natanz nuclear site, state media reported, days after the U.N. atomic watchdog said it installed surveillance cameras to monitor the…
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Yemen’s Houthis criticize new U.S.-led task force in Red Sea
Sanaa: Yemen’s Houthis criticised a new U.S.-led task force that will patrol the Red Sea following a series of attacks by the Iran-backed rebels in a waterway that’s essential to global trade.…
